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...melodrama, will be given to-night and to-morrow. The plot turns upon the contest between the mother (Miss Prescott) and her step-daughter (Miss Wainwright) for the affections of Fernand, the former lover of the mother. Louis James acts the part of Fernand very well. Next week, Tony Pastor's new Burlesque Company. May 31, Birch and Backus' San Francisco Minstrels, for one week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

...abhorred the theatre; for he had frequently heard his good pastor (who had never been inside one in his life, and so was a very competent judge) say that the Devil lurked behind the scenes. Percy had no desire to encounter that gentleman prematurely, and stayed away. Billiard-rooms and Carl's were anathema maranatha, and he refused to go to athletic meetings, because he had heard that the horrid sin of betting was prevalent at them. He frequently lectured his classmates on their immorality, and even wrote of their wickedness to the Herald. But, instead of being looked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMANCE OF A PIOUS YOUTH. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...easiest to obtain a high rank, thus following no fixed plan of study, and leaving college without having enjoyed its highest advantages. How the Corporation and the Faculty have arrived at the conclusions that influence their action it Would be interesting to know. But perhaps the son of the pastor of a wealthy parish, or a student who pays $250 for his room, or one who spends the summer in Europe, is entitled to eleemosynary considerations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

...President Seelye is to be installed as pastor of the college church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

...faculty distinct from that of the College, and in 1818 he was called to the pulpit of the Harvard Church at Charlestown, Mass. He occupied this for twenty-one years, and under his care it became one of the most flourishing and intelligent in the State, and its pastor was recognized as without a peer, with the possible exception of Channing, among Unitarian preachers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAMES WALKER, D. D., LL. D. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »

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